Year in Japan

1695 in Japanese History

2 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).

Era name: Genroku 元禄 (year 8 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Namiki Sōsuke 並木宗輔 · Writer — Kabuki playwright
Toki Yoritoshi 土岐頼稔 · Samurai — Daimyo in the Tokugawa shogunate

Reading the year 1695 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1695 corresponds to Genroku 元禄 (year 8 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".

The year itself is read 1695年 (1695ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 17th century for its neighbours.